Barrymore Anthony Bogues, Ph.D. (1994, Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona), is a writer, scholar, curator, and the Director of the Ruth J Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. He held the position of Professor of Africana Studies, Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence (2004-2007), and is currently the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Africana Studies at Brown University. Additionally, he is an affiliated faculty member in the departments of Political Science , History of Art and Architecture, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Bogues is the co-editor of a special issue of the Italian journal Filosofia Politica (2017) on Black political thought and the co-convener with the National African American Museum of History and Culture of the Global Curatorial Project and of the international exhibition project , In Slavery’s Wake ." He is also the co-editor of the volume on African and African Diasporic Art, "The Imagined New" (2023), and a special edition of the Caribbean journal on the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, "BIM" (2023).
Having curated and co-curated shows in the United States, South Africa, and the Caribbean, Bogues has published numerous essays and articles on the history of criticism, critical theory, political thought, political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, as well as Haitian Art. He is a member of the editorial collective for the journal "boundary 2" and was an honorary professor at the Center for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (2006-2017), and is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Curator at the University of Johannesburg.
Furthermore, Bogues holds the position of Visiting Professor of African and African Diaspora Thought at the Free University of Amsterdam and is a member of the scientific committee of Le Centre d'Art in Haiti. His teaching portfolio includes courses on African political philosophy, cultural politics, intellectual history, contemporary critical theory, and comparative literature of Africa and the African Diaspora, as well as courses on the art history of the Caribbean.
Bogues's primary research and writing interests span intellectual, literary, and cultural history, radical political thought, political theory, critical theory, as well as Caribbean and African politics, Haitian, Caribbean, and African Art.